Essential and Mean

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Essential

Essential adjective - Impossible to do without.
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Mean and essential are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Essential".
Nearby Words: essence, essentially, essentiality

Mean

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.
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Essential and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essential" instead an adjective "Mean".
Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

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good good essential good mean
obvious obvious essential obvious mean
main main essential main mean

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  • Five-Bad Band Often essential to the evil scheme; their screwing up could mean the entire thing falls apart.
    Source: Five-Bad Band
  • This Loser Is You The essential message of the song is "you don't even understand what the lyrics mean and just listen to the music, and the joke's on you because this song is about morons like you".
    Source: This Loser Is You
  • The Alcoholic In fact, it's really quite essential... I mean, who in their right mind's going to climb into it sober?
    Source: The Alcoholic
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